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<h1>Plugins Manager: Downloaded</h1>
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<p>You use the Plugins manager to dynamically update the IDE from the registered update centers and to manage IDE plugins. You use the Downloaded tab of the Plugins manager to add and install manually downloaded plugins. 
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<p>The left pane displays the manually downloaded plugins that you can install. Select the checkbox in the install column for each downloaded plugin that you want to install. The right pane displays a description of the selected plugin.</p>

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<p>Add Plugins</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t44 r1c2-t44">Click to navigate to the location of a downloaded plugin.</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t44 r1c2-t44">Type text in the Search field to locate any plugins in the list of downloaded plugins that contain the text in the plugin description.</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t44 r1c2-t44">Click to install each of the selected downloaded plugins.</td>
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